Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-05-06
THE OIL MEN DEFEATED.
After a Hot Fight the Senate
Rejects the Billingsley Bill.

tee, the following were passed final
ly: Increasing the salary of the Dep
uty Secretary of Internal Affairs;
House bill appropriating $2O,0 900 to
restore and confne the Delaware river
to its original channel.
At III O'Clock Mr.. Delamater offer
ed a resolution for the immediate con-
sideratlon of the Billingsley pipe line
bill
Mr.. Emery stated that number
of the friends of the bill were absent
to day, He did not fell like going
into an argument upon this measure
until those friends were present and
until those who were said to be on
the fence were also present. He
therefore asked the courtesy of the
Senate that the bill be allowed to go
over,
Mr.. Emery disputed a statement
by Mr.. Rutan that there had been
any agreement that the bill should be
considered to-day.
EMERY GROWS INDIGNANT.
Mr.. Emery said he came here in
defense of the 120 people who sat be-
hind him in the galleries, and this
was the first time in his eight years
experience that courtesy had been
refused to any Senator. Must the
Senate establish the gag law? 1t
was unjust that he should be forced
into battle when his army was gone,
1t should be below the dignity of any
Senator to rise and say that he would
not treat brother Senator with
courtesy. 1t was but fair and just
and honorable that he should be al
lowed to have the bill go over.
Mr.. Delamater did not desire any
personal difference with the Senator,
but he insisted that it had been un-
derstood that no objection should be
made to the consideration of the bill
to-day.
A QUESTION OF vERACITY,
Mr.. Emery emphatically denied
that there was any agreement exist
ing between Senator Delamater and
himself as to the hour when the bill
was taken up. Without notice to
him and when be was out of his seat,
Senator Delamater had offered the
pending resolution, after having
agreed yesterday that the bill should
come up in it's regular order.
Mr.. Delamater stated that, having
discovered Mr.. Emery's absense, he
had withdrawn his resolution and
only called it up upon that gentle.
mans return to the chamber. He
then gave his version of the conver-
sation which he had held yesterday
with Senator Emery relative to the
bill There lad been an understand
ing, he claimed, that there would be
no objection to the consideration OF
the bill to-day.
"Veracity against veracity," was
Mr.. Emery's comment.
Mr.. Delamater. II say emphati'
cally that the gentleman's memory
does not agree with mine"
Mr.. Emery warned the Republican
party that if they forced this measure
to-day it would have to take the con-
sequences. There were fifteen coun-
ties in the northwestern part OF the
State, of which thirteen were Repub-
lican, and if Republican Senate
threw this brand into their midst the
consequences wonld be seen at the
next election.
Mr.. Delamater stated that he felt
sure that the bill would be reached to.
day in it's regular order and he there
fore withdrew the resolution.
THINGS GETTING LIVELY.
Mr.. Emery then rose to question
of privilege, and sent to the Clerks
desk and had read an article in the
Oil City Derrick roundly denounc-
ing him, and charging that he had en-
deavored to sell his oil refinery to.
gether with his influence and friend
ship for the damned cheap" price OF
$3.50, 900 to the Standard Oil Co, and
that his hostility to that company
was the result of failure of negotia.
tion. He emphatically denied the
truth of the charge, and fortified his
denial by means of affidavits OF friends
who were present when the Standard
Oil Company was seeking to pur.
chase his refinery. He made say.
age attack upon the Derrick and the
Titusville Herald, which received
weekly stipcnds from the Standard
Oil Co., and were sheets hired to vii.
ify and malign man, who, like him
self occupied place in the honor OF
their constituents.
"There sits one," he continued,
pointing to Mr.. Scheide, who sat at
the side of the chamber, "on that
stool over there, who has vilifed me
on the floor Of the Senate, who has
poured into the ears of Senators the
falsehoods which he has taken from
these papers He knew they were
false, for be knows my character"
Continuing he addressed his fellow
Senators and appealed to them to
bear testimony that he had never
gone back on his word or shirked the
responsibility of his vote. Yet those
papers, controlled by the infamous
monopoly, were hired to defeat thia
measure, right or wrong. Men were
here at the Capital with millions to
make bargains with. He did not
charge that these men did use their
money, but be believed that but for
the fear of the law they would use it.
As man before his Maker he stood
up and defed these scoundrels in in
vestigation or anywhere on Gods
earth He put it fat and straight;
they were liars from the old house.
EMERY's VAIN FIGHT FOR DELAY.
After some routine business the
Billingsley bill was reached on the
calendar
Mr. Emery moved that it be laid
over Lost-Yeas, 19; nays, 90.
Mr.. Emery moved to postpone it
for the present. Yeas, 10; nays, 23
Mr.. Delamater then took the floor
with brief speech in opposition to
the measure, treating it from a consti-
tutional standpoint and doubling its
constitutionality.
Mr.. Emery then entered into q